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PRISON BOWL XI: WE LOVE NO FISH Head Edited by Chloe Levine. Vice Head Edited by Gilad Avrahami and Daniel Ma. Section Edited by Chloe Levine, Gilad Avrahami, Daniel Ma, Sam Brochin, and Rachel Yang. Written by Hunter College High School Quiz Bowl (Chloe Levine, Gilad Avrahami, Daniel Ma, Sam Brochin, Rachel Yang, Ben Chapman, Asher Jaffe, Ella Leeds, Alice Lin, Brian Lu, Cerulean Ozarow, Abishrant Panday, David Godovich) with help from Matthew Lehmann (Chicago). Special thanks to Tadhg Larabee (Richard Montgomery), Ms. Caitlin Samuel, Mr. Ross Pinkerton, Lily Goldberg, Ms. Lindsay Samuel, Julia Tong (Darien), and Finnegan the Dog. PACKET ELEVEN Tossups 1. The Battle of Wild Fox Ridge occurred after one commander passed through this location. Supposedly, because a rebellion’s leader raped the wife of the general guarding this location, he allowed Dorgon to cross it to end the rebellion. That general later rebelled in the Revolt of the Three Feudatories and was (*) Wu Sangui. ​ ​ ​ Due to a former section now decaying, the Jade Pass is commonly not considered a part of this feature. Jiayuguan ​ ​ and Shanhaiguan mark the ends of this structure, and its current version dates to the Ming Dynasty, with initial construction ordered by Qin Shi Huangdi. For 10 points, name this fortification, the longest man-made structure in the world. ANSWER: the Great Wall of China <DM> ​ ​ 2. After Cu Chulainn (“koo HUH-lin”) tasted some of this substance, he could not marry Derbforgaill. In The ​ Kalevala, Lemminkainen’s mother notices this substance on her son’s hairbrush. Sigurd dug a series of ​ trenches in the ground to avoid touching this substance. Kali used her tongue to stop some of this substance belonging to the demon Raktabija from touching the (*) ground. Dwarves in Norse myth mixed a sample of this ​ substance belonging to Kvasir with honey to create the Mead of Poetry. The goddess Aphrodite created the first anemones by mixing nectar with this substance of the slain Adonis. For 10 points, name this substance that Heracles used to make his arrows lethal by after slaying the Hydra. ANSWER: blood <AJ> ​ ​ 3. One disease of this organ has cell types sorted by the Callender system and can be treated with Mohs surgery. Excess water and minerals can be removed through merocrine glands in this organ, which contains arrector pili muscles. Meissner’s corpuscles serve a (*) sensory application in this organ. The Mantoux test for tuberculosis ​ ​ ​ is performed on this organ, which stores fat in the subcutaneous layer. In fish, amphibians, and reptiles, pigment is stored in this organ by chromatophores, and this organ can change size to aid in camouflage. For 10 points, name this largest organ of the body which includes the dermis and epidermis. ANSWER: skin [anti-prompt on dermis and epidermis until mention] <AJ> ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ 4. This character orders a hunting group not to shoot a white hare in the work in which he appears, and at a party attended by Lady Monmouth, this character faints when he sees the sailor James in the window. This character hires Alan Campbell for one task, and an opium addict refers to this character by the nickname (*) ​ “Prince Charming.” After watching a substandard performance of Romeo and Juliet, this character breaks up with ​ ​ Sibyl Vane. This character is mentored by Lord Henry Wotton, and stabs a portrait by Basil Hallward in the work he appears in. For 10 points, name this title character of a novel about a “picture” by Oscar Wilde. ANSWER: Dorian Gray [accept either; do not accept “The Picture of Dorian Gray”] <RY> ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ 5. A faint diagonal line connects the eyes of two characters wearing beaded necklaces in this painting. Three overlapping circles in this painting meant to depict celestial objects include a red crescent moon in the lower left hand corner. A pale hand with a ruby ring holds a flowering plant directly under the red-lipped mouth of another figure in this work. In the background of this painting, a black-clad man carries a (*) scythe next to ​ an upside-down violinist. A goat faces a green-faced man in front of the row of colorful houses in the title location. For 10 points, name this “narrative self-portrait” named for the town of Vitebsk and the work’s artist, Marc Chagall. ANSWER: I and the Village <GA> ​ ​ 6. In 2012, David Deutsch published a book titled The Beginning of this word. George Gamow described the ​ ​ limits of one African people’s language at the beginning of a work titled One Two Three . this word. In a ​ ​ 1913 article by Émile Borel, this word describes a group of (*) monkeys which name a theorem. Colloquially, the ​ word “grand” is replaced by a form of this word in the name of a thought experiment described by David Hilbert about a hotel. Zeno’s dichotomy paradox involves splitting a distance in half this many times. For 10 points, name this mathematical concept greater than any natural number. ANSWER: infinity [or an infinite number; prompt on equivalents] <CL> ​ ​ ​ ​ 7. V. Gordon Childe’s criteria for an ancient type of these things include taxation collected for a deity or king. Ebenezer Howard’s work To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform described one of these things, which ​ ​ were also the focus of Lewis Mumford. The concept of “eyes on the street” was developed in relation to these things. Another theory about these things argues that their role in (*) import replacement is crucial to economic ​ growth. One movement was named for the “garden” type of these things, and The Death and Life of Great American ​ [ones] titles a work of Jane Jacobs. For 10 points, identify these urban centers, examples of which are named for ​ Oklahoma and New York. ANSWER: cities [or city; prompt on urban center until mention; prompt on metropolitan areas or metropolis] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ <CL> 8. 439 people died in one of these locations in Senghenydd. The German customs union of the mid-19th century was named after one of these locations in Westphalia, namely, the Zollverein. A violent incident at one of these locations involving the Colorado National Guard prompted John D. Rockefeller to hire William Mackenzie King as a PR expert. That incident was dubbed the (*) Ludlow Massacre. Arthur Scargill led a 1984 ​ strike at these locations broken up by Margaret Thatcher. The good produced in these places comes in bituminous and anthracite types. For 10 points, name these locations which produce a fossil fuel crucial in the Industrial Revolution. ANSWER: coal mines [prompt on mines; generously prompt on locations mentioning coal] <BL> ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ 9. Lockheed Martin recently received a contract from the U.S. government to build a system based on these devices. These devices will have jumps in their mode spectrum if their temperature is not kept stable. A type ​ of these devices dimerizes halides using an electrical current, while other types may use mixtures of (*) noble ​ gases. These devices can be used to cool individual atoms by minimizing their vibrations. These devices tend to produce low frequencies because higher frequencies require higher rates of electron pumping. For 10 points, name these devices which produce a coherent stream of photons. ANSWER: lasers [accept light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation] <AJ> ​ ​ ​ ​ 10. In one work by this writer, a character is “chased by a horrible thing / which raced sideways while blowing bubbles,” and he also wrote a play named for Santa Claus. One of his poems describes women who are “unbeautiful and comfortable minds” and live in Cambridge. This writer of “i (*) carry your heart with me” ​ and “maggie and milly and molly and may” asks, “how do you like your blue-eyed boy / Mister Death[?]” in another poem. The phrase “(with up so floating many bells down)” follows the title of another of his poems, “anyone lived in a pretty how town.” For 10 points, name this poet known for his unique use of grammar, punctuation, and capitalization. ANSWER: e e cummings [accept Edward Estlin Cummings] <CL> ​ ​ ​ ​ 11. In this decade, the Great New England Hurricane hit Long Island, the worst hurricane ever to strike the Northeast. A hurricane in this decade permanently damaged the Overseas Railroad and destroyed Islamorada and the other Upper Keys. In this decade which included the Labor Day Hurricane, the (*) ​ Shelterbelt attempted to mitigate an event that led to “black blizzards.” Resulting from the false adage that “rain follows the plow,” deep plowing in the Great Plains caused topsoil to be blown away in dust storms in this decade. For 10 points, name this decade, in which the Dust Bowl exacerbated the Great Depression. ANSWER: 1930s [accept the Dirty Thirties; prompt on ‘30s] <DM> ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ 12. In one episode, a character with this first name drives to Oberlin to corner Carmen Tibideaux. A different character with this first name exclaims, “It’s not that common, it doesn’t happen to every guy, and it is a big deal!” A character with this first name discovers her mother is Shelby Corcoran, with whom she then (*) ​ sings “Poker Face.” That character has an on-and-off relationship with Finn Hudson. A controversy surrounding a character with this first name who works at Bloomingdale’s focuses on whether or not she and Ross were on a break. For 10 points, identify this first name of a character with the last name Berry on Glee and a character with the ​ ​ last name Green on Friends. ​ ​ ANSWER: Rachel [accept Rachel Berry or Rachel Green] <CL> ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ 13. In one work by this author, the Greek woman Mariana employs Zohra at the title guest house, Miramar. This ​ ​ author created Dr. Booshy, a dentist who steals false teeth from dead bodies.

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